James Wyche is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. After growing up in Texas, I can confidently say that I know heat. Long weekends dedicated to baseball tournaments under the high summer sun routinely exhausted my energy. Before leaving to play, my mom always would remind me “to REMEMBER…
Jayce Jimenez is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. What comes to mind when you think of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)? As the name suggests, the IRA was aimed at curbing rapid inflation that occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the IRA is additionally and,…
Mike Orlando is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. On February 14, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, head of the USDA, testified in front of the House Agriculture Committee (the “Ag Committee”). He urged the Ag Committee to act quickly to pass the next farm bill, noting that delays…
James Wyche is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. America’s Digital Evolution America’s development from an agrarian country to one of increasing technological sophistication has engendered fundamental economic and social changes. Since the dawn of the age of the internet near the end of the 20th century, society’s reliance…
Orly Levy is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Food Insecurity in Higher Education The next farm bill provides a legislative opportunity to tackle food insecurity amongst college students through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While the exact numbers are unclear, many low-income college students don’t have enough…
Jayce Jimenez is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Let me paint a picture for you. You’re talking with your “friend” Kevin about the dire need for collective climate action, a subject with which you’re familiar, when he abruptly shifts the conversation to the topic of carbon credits (which…
Nathan Roseberg visiting scholar, Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, and Bryce Wilson Stucki, an independent researcher, just released a new report: More Than CAFOS and Corn: A Statistical Analysis of Agriculture in Six Midwestern States. This report will be a critical resource for advocates and policymakers seeking to better understand the mid-west’s agricultural landscape in greater detail…
This is a repost of a previous blog post from February 2023, written by Liz Turner, a previous law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. America’s farmworkers are a uniquely vulnerable group of workers. Farm labor is exempted from many federal protections, including the right to organize under the National Labor…
Hudson Bennett is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. Screening and Panel Host: Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, Moderated by Andrew Kahrl Panelists: Eternal Polk, P.J. Haynie, and Johane Domersant “Once land is gone, you can’t get it back.”—P.J. Haynie, farmer featured in the film and the panel….
Sarah King is a law student in the HLS Food Law & Policy Clinic and a guest contributor to this blog. On November 14th, the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry held a hearing to discuss the use of artificial intelligence in agriculture. They heard from several expert witnesses in the agriculture and technology field, including Dr. Mason Earles,…